From: Changbin Du <[email protected]>

Commit 2f3f9bcf000b ("perf tools: Add +field argument support for --field
option") by Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> introduced +field style argument
support for --field option. This is useful but not updated documentation.
This add a little description there.

Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <[email protected]>
---
 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt 
b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
index c04cc06..c831ebc 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
@@ -172,6 +172,9 @@ OPTIONS
        By default, every sort keys not specified in -F will be appended
        automatically.
 
+       If the keys starts with a prefix '+', then will append field(s) to
+       default field order. For example: perf report -F +period,sample.
+
 -p::
 --parent=<regex>::
         A regex filter to identify parent. The parent is a caller of this
-- 
2.7.4

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